OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION CLOVER CO NNECTION KNOX COUNTY 4-H NOVEMBER/ /DECEMBER 2014 4-H Volunteer Kickoff... Page 1 Market Beef Tagging... Page 2 Quality Assurance... Page 2 Becoming a Volunteer... Page 3 Fingerprinting... Page 3 Project Information... Page 4 Capital Youth Challenge... Page 5 Family Guide... Back Cover Sorry WE ARE SORRY! We want to apologize for the lack of communication in 2014. There are absolutely no excusess for not completing and communicatingg with 4-H newsletters this year. It is not acceptable and we take full responsibility for this. We stood in frontt of all of you in January during our 4-H Kickoff and vowed to do better in communicating. We ended up doing the complete opposite and went backwards. We hope that you can all accept our apology. We are starting with this newsletter, to turn over a new leaf. We will make this one of our priorities starting from this day forward. We are going to work towards smaller newsletters more often and filling the time in between with email reminders. We have included some important dates and reminders that will be beneficial for you and your club members to know from now until Kickoff. Sincerely, Andrea Daubenmier & Larry L. Hall
2015 4-H Volunteer Kickoff Dates Set We are going to be offering more Volunteer Kickoff sessions in 2015. We will be offering three regular sessions and one new advisor training. Please remember that it is mandatory that you attend one of the Kickoffs. BRAND NEW VOLUNTEER KICKOFF SESSION This session will be designed for brand new volunteers for 2015 or ones who came in during the 2014 season. We will be going more in depth with all of the paperwork and the logistics behind our 4-H program. We realized that during our regularr sessions we take for granted that everyone knows what all of the paper work is about and understands our system. We feel that our brand new volunteers need us to take a different approach on kickoff. New volunteers for 2015 - all you need to bring is a writing utensil. We will be providing each one of you with all of the appropriate paper work that you will need for the year. Volunteers from 2014 pleasee bring your club notebook from last year if you still have it. This session will be held at the OSU Extension Office located at 160 Columbus Road on Saturday, January 17 starting at 9 a.m. MARK YOUR CALENDARS! CLOVER CONNECTION REGULAR VOLUNTEER KICKOFF SESSIONS This year we will be holding THREE 4-H volunteer kickoff sessions. The first one will be Tuesday, January 20 starting at 6 p.m. The second will be Thursday, January 22 starting at 6 p.m. The third and final one will be on Saturday, February 7 starting at 9 a.m. You will need to bring your club notebooks and a writing utensil. The organizational advisor will get the all of the information for the club notebook. But a new feature this year iss that everyone will receivee a packet that has important information in it. That way, if club volunteers cannot all come together to one particular kickoff everyonee is still walking away with what they need in terms of information. All of these sessions will be held at the Memorial Building in the dining room downstairs. The Memorial Building is located at 112 E. High Street. KICKOFF TIMES & LOCATIONS New Advisor Session at OSU Extension Office ~ Saturday, January 17 @ 9 a.m. Regular Sessionss at Memorial Building ~ Tuesday, January 20 @ 6 p.m. ~ Thursday, January 22 @ 6 p.m. ~ Saturday, February 7 @ 9 a.m. 2 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION KNOX COUNTYY
Market Beef & Market Dairy Steer Weigh-In and Tagging Are you planning to exhibit a Market Beef and/or a Market Dairy Steer at the 2015 Knox County Junior Fair? If so, the following information is for you. WHAT: Market Beef and Market Dairy Steer Tagging and Weigh-In WHEN: Saturday, December 6, 2014 TIME: 9:00 a.m. to 12 Noon WHERE: Knox County Fairgrounds in the Draft Horse Barn COST: Tags are $2.00 each. Special Note: All animals need to be wearing a halter and be broke to lead!!!! They also must be dehorned and castrated! If you know of any 1st year members who are thinking of taking one of the above projects please pass this information on to them. Potential 2015 Ohio State Fair Market Beef Exhibitors: Please contact Andrea (397-0401 ext. 1301) to be informed of the changes that they have made in order for you to be eligible to participate next year. Quality Assurance for 2015 I have been working with our Vocational Agriculture teachers here in the county to get our QA dates set for 2015. You can see the dates that we have set to the right in the red box. So please mark your calendars accordingly. The following project exhibitors need to attend a Quality Assurance session in order to show at the 2015 Knox County Junior Fair: Market Beef, Market Dairy Steers, Beef Feeders, Beef Breeding, Dairy Market Feeders, Dairy Cattle, Market Hogs, Market Lambs, Sheep Breeding, Market Goats, Dairy Goats, Market Rabbits, Breeding Rabbits, Broilers, Breeding Poultry, Turkeys. Equine exhibitors also need to attend (not currently eligible for test out). This year, all sessions will begin promptly at 6 p.m. If you arrive past 6:15 p.m. you will not be able to join in on that QA session. Per ODA regulations, you must attend a session that is a minimum of 60 minutes in length. We know that everyone is busy but please plan accordingly around your schedules, especially sports. 2015 QUALITY ASSURANCE DATES SET Thursday, March 12 East Knox High School Thursday, April 9 Centerburg High School Monday, April 20 Fredericktown High School Thursday, May 14 Mount Vernon High School Thursday, May 21 Danville High School All sessions will start promptly at 6 p.m. ----------------------------- 2015 QUALITY ASSURANCE TEST - OUT DATES Monday, December 15 at 6 p.m. Saturday, January 31 at 9 a.m. QA TEST OUT OPTION I will be offering two dates for test out for youth ages 15 and older as of January 1, 2015. We will start each session with a review of the Good Production Practices and then precede into the 50 question multiple choice test. If you pass the test with a 70% or higher, you will not have to attend a QA session for the remainder of your 4-H or FFA showing career. CLOVER CONNECTION 3 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION KNOX COUNTY
Becoming a 4-H Volunteer Are you interested in becoming a 4-H volunteer? Here are the steps that you will need to work through in order for you to be considered. Contact the OSU Extension office to indicate an interest in becoming an Extension volunteer. Pay a $5.00 volunteer application fee to receive an application. The fee helps cover copying costs and postage for mailings to and from references and the applicant. Complete and submit the application and Standards of Behavior form. After receiving and reviewing an appropriate number of responses by references and the application, an interview with the applicant will be scheduled with at least two people from the program area (4-H, Master Gardeners, FCS, etc.) staff. After a successful first interview, the applicant will acquire and self-pay for a Webcheck report through Ohio BCI&I. Once all forms and reports are accepted and in the applicant's file, the applicant will be informed of their status as a volunteer for a one-year term which may be renewed at the discretion of the OSU Extension staff. This process needs to be STARTED AND COMPLETED before March 16, 2015. The process from start to finish should be no more than a month. Fingerprint Background Checks Fingerprint background checks are required before beginning service and every four years thereafter. Both the current and newly expanded Policy 1.50 require all OSU employees, students, and volunteers who work with minors in the course of their duties to have an Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) fingerprint background check before they begin service, and every four years thereafter. If the employee/student/volunteer has not lived in Ohio for all of the last five years, they must also have a FBI fingerprint background check in addition to the Ohio BCI check. There is no more background check grandfathering. Therefore, every OSU Extension employee, student, and volunteer must have a BCI fingerprint background check on file, even those who were grandfathered without a background check in 2002. Each current adult volunteer in the 4HOnline system has been assigned a rescreening date based on their years of service (and if they ve had one recently, the date of their last BCI fingerprint background check). As of 10/1/14, all adult 4-H volunteers were assigned a last approved date: 2010-2011; 2011-2012; 2012-2013; and 2013-2014. These dates represent the 4-H programming year. Volunteers who have 2010-2011 listed as their last approved screening date should have received a letter via the US Postal Service informing them they need to have a BCI fingerprint background check. The 4-H letter was sent from Tom Archer and Kirk Bloir from the State 4-H Office. We will accept the results of a fingerprint background check if the volunteer had an Ohio BCI fingerprint background check conducted within the past 12 months for a reason related to working with children, working with the elderly, or certain types of licensure. They must use the BCI request form (http://go.osu.edu/bcireportrequest) and have BCI mail the report directly to the OSUE Fingerprint Background Check Coordinator. Note: if they are unsure if they can request a copy of a past report, they can contact the BCI Civilian Identification Department directly at 877-224- 0043. The cost for these reports is $8.00. Results of the BCI fingerprint background check MUST be sent directly from BCI to the OSU Extension Fingerprint Background Check Coordinator. No BCI fingerprint background check reports should be sent to or kept by a county office. All reports should be mailed directly from BCI to OSU Extension at: OSU Extension Volunteer Background Check Coordinator 2201 Fred Taylor Drive Columbus, OH 43210 December 31, 2014 is the deadline all current volunteers with a last approved screening date of 2010-2011 must obtain a fingerprint background check. CLOVER CONNECTION 4 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION KNOX COUNTY
PROJECT CHANGES FOR 2015 NEW 150R Poultry Resource Handbook 382 Am I Ready for Work? 405 The Laundry Project 498 Quilting the Best Better 500 Science Fun with Physics 507 Robotics with EV3 REVISED 150 Poultry Project & Record Book 179 Uniform Rules for Horse Shows 202 Dog Achievement Program 459 Let s Start Cooking (replace I Spy in the Kitchen) 461 Let s Bake Quick Breads 611 Explore the Outdoors 751 Archery Member Record Book Ohio 4-H Project Central 4-H Project Central is an easy way for a 4-H members or 4-H member-to-be to preview all the Ohio 4-H project books and resources. You can take a closer look at a book, find out what others had to say about a project and even share your own experience with a project. You can go to: http://www.projectcentral.ohio4h.org/ and search by keyword or title, by skill level and/or topic area. Ohio 4-H would like to hear from all members. We encouragee members and project helpers to share their project experiences for 2014. Perhaps you thought Get Started in Art was the best project ever, or maybe you thought Fishing for the Beginner was missing something we want to know! Follow the link above and find the project you want to rate and go for it. DISCONTINUED 124R Techniques for Judgingg Dairy Cattle 481 Food & Fitness for Fun 482 Food & Fitness Choice for You 613 Exploring Our Forests 617 Exploring Our Ponds 645 Exploring Our Insect World Mark your calendars for Buckeye Leadership Workshop (BLW)! Visit: http://www.buckeyeleadership.org/ for more information. You can download the brochure, registration and/ /or scholarship form from that website. Scholarship forms are due by January 8, 2015. CLOVER CONNECTION 5 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION KNOX COUNTYY
Ohio Youth Capital Challenge is an exciting program for 4-H, FFA and Farm Bureau with a primary goal of ncreasing youth citizenship knowledge and participation. Exceptional community citizenship is one of the values that makes FFA, 4-H and Farm Bureau successful organizations. These groups are partnering on this program. Applicants must be in at least ninth grade and between the ages of 14 and 18 during the 2014/2015 school year. Applicants should have a concern for local community issues and a desire to be more involved. Cost is $25 per youth upon selection. Forty youths will be selected for the challenge. Participants will travel to Columbus March 17 and 18 for Phase One of the challenge where they will learn about government processes, how to make a difference and building teams. They willl interact with state leaders at a legislative luncheon and begin workk on a local plan. In Phase Two, participants work within teams and with mentors on a local community issue. Teams willl develop a presentation on their topic. Presentations are made in Columbus May 16 in Phasee Three, and final presentationss for the top three winning teams take place Aug. 1 at the Ohio State Fair. Applyy by Jan. 9, 2015. Delegates will be notified by the end of January. http:/ //ofbf.org/get-involved/youth-programs/ Cassiee Turner turner.280@osu.edu is the 4-H Contact for this program. CLOVER CONNECTION 6 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY EXTENSION KNOX COUNTYY
OSU Extension Knox County 160 Columbus Road PO Box 1268 Mount Vernon, OH 43050 Phone: 740-397-0401 Email: daubenmier@embarqmail.com URL: http://knox.osu.edu hall.392@osu.eduu Pleasee keep in mind that we are always heree for you. If challenges arise, contact us ASAP so we can aid in resolving things with you. More than likely we have handled a similar situation in the past that will help us through whatever your club might be facing. CFAES provides research and related educational programs to clientele on a nondiscriminatory basis. For more information: http://go.osu.edu/cfaesdiversity. 2015 Family Guide This is your place to connect to our entire collection of Ohio 4-H project books for the year. Each project book contains information n and activities for members to explore as an organized group project or at home under the guidance of a parent or interested adult. When choosing a project, consider your interests, background, what is necessary to start the project, and the resources available to help you complete it. Just go to: http://www.ohio4h.org/sites/d6- ohio4h.web/files/publications/documents/current%20 Family%20Guide.pdf